The pros and cons of flocking in the long-range "migration" of mobile robot swarms

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 411, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 2140-2154

  Gökçe, Fatih ^a   Şahin, Erol ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Flocking; Migration; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

SELF-ORGANIZED; SIMULATED ROBOT; SWARM OF ROBOTS; SWARM ROBOTICS; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT;

EARTH (PLANET); MAGNETIC FIELDS; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77950601831     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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